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Andrea Pirro is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. He serves as editor of the journal East European Politics and editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Extremism & Democracy. Between 2014 and 2022, he chaired the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy.
He holds an MA in Politics from the University of Sheffield and a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena. Before joining the Department of Political and Social Sciences in Bologna, he was first Postdoctoral Research Fellow and then Assistant Professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence). He has been a visiting scholar at the Central European University (Budapest), the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), the University of Oslo, and the European University Institute (Fiesole).
His research interests include: extremism, radicalism, populism, and democracy; Euroscepticism; political parties and party systems; social movements and political participation; and research design and methodology in the social sciences.
